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It isn't Islamophobia when they really ARE trying to kill you


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UK: Court rules 19th century church can remove pews to serve mainly Muslim community

In other words, operate the church as if it were a mosque. Source: Church can remove pews to attract local Muslims, court rules 

A Church of England church has been allowed to remove its pews in order to cater for local Muslims.  St Thomas Werneth, in Oldham, near Manchester, has been given permission to remove the pews to allow it to hold more events with the wider community, which is “broadly Muslim”, the Chancellor of the Diocese of Manchester said.

In a ruling made last month, Geoffrey Tattershall QC said that the church would be allowed to remove the seating because the proposals would have “major public benefit outweighing any harm resulting from the loss of the pews”.

The 19th century church is the only one in the parish and is in an area which is 88 per cent non-white British.

“Its continuing presence is important in enabling social cohesion and contact between local Muslims and Christians,” the Chancellor said.

The purpose of the re-ordering of the Church is to open up the Church for community use, as part of its service and mission to the mainly Muslim community in the parish and to enable the wider community to share its heritage.

“The Church wishes to be a place of welcome, growth and engagement for the local communities.”

The plan was supported by the Venerable Cherry Vann, the Archdeacon of Rochdale, who said there was “significant interfaith work” going on in the area and “a genuine desire among some of the Muslim leaders to build bridges and work in partnership with the Church.”

“Moreover there is clearly some goodwill towards the church in the (at present) largely Muslim community in Werneth and it is important that the church has the flexibility and capacity to exercise a ministry of hospitality to those living in the parish through a variety of community-based activities,” she said.

Local church school St Thomas in Werneth was earlier this year reported to have only Muslim pupils.

The Victorian Society raised concerns about the plans, which it said would be “damaging” to the Grade II listed church.

The rhythm of repeating pews, the dark wood and the shape of the aisle drawing the eye to the east is an important element of what makes this a Victorian church interiorVictorian Society

“Individually the pews are not of major importance as objects in their own right. However, en masse, they make an important contribution to the character of the interior of the church.

“The rhythm of repeating pews, the dark wood and the shape of the aisle drawing the eye to the east is an important element of what makes this a Victorian church interior,” it said.

The plans are part of an extensive refurbishment of the church’s interior, including a new heating system, new flooring, and new disabled access and toilets.

The pews are set to be replaced by 125 stackable chairs as well as 8 new pews “to give a bit of solidity to the arrangements of seating”.

The Chancellor said he had “no hesitation” in ruling that the pews were “not of any significant historic merit, particularly since they were only recently installed in 1970”, and could be removed.

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Honor Killing: Girl and fiance gunned down by uncle for speaking before marriage


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Honor killing and violence is in accordance with Islamic mores and tradition, which is why we see an increase in honor killings in the West: it’s a result of Muslim immigration.

A recent survey showed that 91 percent of honor killings worldwide are committed by Muslims, and 84 percent of honor killings in the United States were done by Muslims. This is no surprise. A manual of Islamic law approved by Al-Azhar, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, stipulates that “retaliation is obligatory…against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not subject to retaliation” is “a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring.” In other words, Islamic law sets no penalty for a parent who kills his child. Also, the legal codes of Jordan, Syria, and other Muslim countries have substantially reduced penalties for honor murders as compared to other murders, and Islamic clerics have resisted efforts to stiffen penalties for honor killings. (source)

Girl, Fiance Gunned Down For Speaking Before

Marriage In Pakistan

The girl, identified as Nazeeran, was speaking with her

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usband-to-be Shahid in Nayi Wahi village in the suburbs of

Ghotki town when her uncle spotted them.The uncle opened fire

on them out of anger.

Karachi:  A girl and her fiance were gunned down, allegedly by the girl’s maternal uncle after spotting them chatting in Pakistan’s Sindh province, in the latest case of honour killing, a media report said.

The girl, identified as Nazeeran, was speaking with her husband-to-be Shahid in Nayi Wahi village in the suburbs of Ghotki town when her uncle spotted them.

The uncle opened fire on them out of anger, Express News reported.

According to police, the victims were each other’s cousins and the incident was a case of ‘honour killing’.

Two suspects, both of whom happen to be the girl’s uncles, have been arrested so far.

Honour killings are pandemic in Pakistan, and women are its predominant victims.

An angry Pakistani youth allegedly shot dead his sister and her husband in Rawalpindi last month for marrying without the family’s consent.

In November, a newly-wed couple in Sindh province who married without the consent of their elders were killed allegedly on the orders of a jirga (village elders).Comments

More Pakistani women are murdered at the hands of close family members for supposed immoral behaviour than Pakistani civilians are killed by terrorism, the report said.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has reported an average of 650 honour killings annually over the past decade. But since most go unreported, the real number is likely to be much higher, the report said.

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‘HE RIGGED IT’: Marco Rubio Interferes in FL Republican Race to Sabotage Pro-Trump Candidate

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is being accused by extremely angry members of the Florida Republican Party of rigging the National Committeewoman race to keep the establishment in place and sabotage popular pro-Trump candidate Karen Giorno.

Giorno was Trump’s Florida director during the primaries as well as a senior adviser working in Trump Tower during the general election. She has also previously worked in the Bush White House and as Governor Rick Scott’s director of external affairs.

According to Maryann Pistilli, a grassroots activist who got her start with the Tea Party and went on to become a co-chair for the Trump campaign in Florida as well and a regional director for the RPOF, the treatment Giorno was subjected to by the state party was like nothing she had ever seen before.

“We were treated so rudely up there, I was employee of theirs — so were these other women,” Pistilli, audibly upset, said of the treatment of herself, Giorno and the other women who were stumping for her by her former employers. “These women that were with me worked their butts off during the election to help our party win and they were treated with such disrespect!”

She described the RPOF as “infested” with Never-Trumpers and recalled an incident where one of the women she was with handed an invitation to Giorno’s reception to a party chairwoman and she crumpled it up in a ball and threw it at them. “That’s the RPOF,” Pistilli said, dismayed.

Speaking to the Gateway Pundit on the condition of anonymity due to their role within the party, someone heavily involved in the election detailed how Rubio made an unannounced visit to the party’s quarterly meeting in Orlando on Saturday to personally lobby against Giorno after realizing that she was going to win. 

“He rigged it,” they stated.

“Giorno was responsible for the Florida primary, she cleared the field for Trump,” the source told the Gateway Pundit. “When you clear the field for the anti-establishment candidate, you don’t make a lot of friends.”

On Friday evening, Giorno and her opponent Kathleen King held dueling receptions to garner support ahead of Saturday’s vote. Giorno, who was endorsed by Citizens for Trump, Bikers for Trump, the MAGA Coalition, Sebastian Gorka, and many others within the MAGA movement, had roughly 150-175 lively people in attendance. King only had a small fraction of supporters attend her own.

According to a count by those close to her campaign, Giorno was in the lead by approximately 20 votes going into Saturday’s election.

Chris Cox, the founder of Bikers for Trump, who was in Florida campaigning for Giorno confirmed to the Gateway Pundit that their informal whip polling had her with approximately 90 votes on Friday, yet on Saturday she only received 48.

Multiple sources within the party told the Gateway Pundit that RPOF chairman Blaise Ingoglia had sent trackers to the receptions to determine which voting members were stopping by Giorno’s event.

The visible contrast in support, they said, appeared to spook the establishment members of the party who did not want to see a close ally of our president take the reigns. Panicked, Ingoglia suddenly added Rubio to the agenda ahead of the morning’s vote. It is highly unusual for a sitting senator to attend one of these meetings and the party itself is not supposed to have a dog in the fight.

“I thought we had about 90 in the bag, when they came out and said 48 to King’s 128 I was flabbergasted,” Cox said. “I was beside myself and couldn’t believe it. The math didn’t add up. Later it came out that Rubio had come in at the last second and was using the power of his office to influence these county chairmen.”

Sources close to the election told GWP that the senator personally met with several people who had previously committed to vote for Giorno and that they inexplicably flipped the other way after discussions with him.

“The establishment went into preservation mode. Marco shows up and pulled aside Giorno’s supporters, including one who is running for State Representative. If you’re running for State Rep and a sitting senator pulls you aside — you’re going to do whatever he says,” the source said. “These are the types of things that were happening.”

One anonymous source repeatedly referred to Rubio’s interference as “collusion” and compared it to the Democratic National Committee and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz rigging the 2016 primary race against Bernie Sanders. 

The sentiment was echoed by Cox and Pistilli.

“It’s a good old boys system,” Cox said. “King, this woman who won, the whole premise was that she was entitled to it. She was next in line — it was her turn. It was similar to the Hillary Clinton narrative.”

Pistilli added that, “it was her turn, if you know what I mean. I was saying to myself, am I with a bunch of Democrats right now? This is what Democrats do — they eat their own. They’re obstructionists and they don’t like Trump.”

“The way that Karen was treated, I can’t find the words. It was so disheartening for me. Here is a woman that they should respect immensely for everything she has done for the Republican Party. She was the head of the Trump campaign in Florida! She brought our party the victory!” Pistilli said. “Instead of praising her, they demeaned her.”

Pistilli explained that aside from the spying and disrespect, the Never-Trump members of the RPOF were spreading fake news to smear her.

“Karen clearly should have won and was the most qualified for the job. She’s a phone call away from the president and is close to the governor. Instead we put a woman who is a lifer within the RPOF without any big accomplishments into the job because ‘it’s her turn,’” Pistilli said. “They didn’t want a MAGA coalition leader because they are Never-Trumpers.”

King will now be replacing Sharon Day, who was recently appointed by Trump as the US ambassador to Costa Rica.

“The RPOF doesn’t stand for the Republican Party of Florida, it stands for the Rubio Party of Florida,” Cox told the Gateway Pundit.

Cox asserted that Rubio is a chameleon who actively undermined the President of the United States with his actions.

“We were just trying to ensure that at least one of the three votes at the RNC — which would be the chairman, the national committeewoman and the national committeeman — would represent the president and the MAGA movement,” the source said.

Pistilli, for her part, will not be giving up despite the horrible mistreatment of Trump supporters.

“All aboard the Trump Train because we are now going into the RPOF! That’s my new mission,” Pistilli said.

She explained that the only way you can vote is to become a member of a Republican Executive Committee or join the RPOF — and that she will now be working to flood their ranks with Trump supporters to vote the Never-Trumpers out and take the party back.

“It’s very scary, but I have never stopped and will never stop fighting. Blaise [Ingoglia] needs to understand that right now these cards are stacked against him because we aren’t going away,” Pistilli said, noting that the people who volunteered for Trump and Giorno were also paying attention to what happened with the votes. “Those people sitting in that room and voting — they don’t go out and knock doors, they don’t make phone calls — all they are is a bunch of people with titles. They’re a bunch of opportunists.”

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by Morton Levitt:

The new year had barely emerged when we were caught up in the latest leftist plot to yet again raise doubts about the Trump Presidency. This time it is clear that our friends on the left put a lot of time and effort – and money – into a wall-concocted scheme pursuant to their never-ending fantasy of bringing down the President. Will it work, or has this latest effort finally exposed the malicious undercurrent of hatred for what it is – a desperate effort to assuage the paranoia of a group of cry babies who just can’t get over that their candidate lost and Trump won?

On the face of it, the allegations raised in the book are so outrageous that even many members of the opposition are scratching their heads. The author himself is not a newcomer to this scandalous smear campaign strategy. Watching his interviews over the past days, it is clear that his common theme is equivocation.

He doesn’t answer a single question directly; he dances around the queries and – like any good con man, he obfuscates the dialogue with platitudes and half-answers. Make no mistake about it, this latest bombshell was well-planned, well-funded, and well-conceived . It was almost too good – and there lies the rub. Like a Hollywood script for an action drama, the actor’s lines are predictable and pedestrian. After  a while, the audience hits a stone wall of disbelief.


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Let’s look at some of the more outrageous allegations. The author would have us believe that the entire Trump family thinks their patriarch is a loon. Right, and if you believe that, I have some land I would sell you in the Everglades. The Trump family is smart, politically savvy, and quite used to being in the spotlight. Even if they weren’t aware they were being formally interviewed, there is no way they would go on the record with salacious comments about the new President. The author can claim all he wants that he has “notes and recordings” of these comments. I’d like to hear them. I bet you’re not going to hear a single recording of Ivanka, Jared, Trump, Jr., or any other family member trashing the Donald. For one thing, you can’t record someone unless they give permission, and if they didn’t give permission, it is a criminal act to do so.

As for the “notes,” I wouldn’t believe the paper they’re printed on. Sure, if the author interviewed staff members and sat in on a number of staff meetings over the course of months – anybody could string together a dialogue from multiple venues, taken out of context, and assembling them into a purported “quote.” It’s the oldest journalistic trick in the books. We see it every day, employed by our friends on the left, to convince us of such things that the world is flat, armgeddon is just around the corner, or “climate change” (I.e., CO2 emissions)  is really responsible for floods, blizzards, hurricanes, earthquakes, and “global warming.”

Come on, guys, do you really think we’re buying this? The problem is that the left is so obsessed with taking down Trump that they fabricate stories on a daily basis just to keep us Trumpers reeling on our heels, and they are relentless in their Machiavellian ways. But this time they have gone too far.

When a fabrication is so outrageous and unbelievable that even the members of the cabal are doubting, the jig is up. If I were running the White House Communications office, I wouldn’t grace this latest leftist plot with one more statement. Of course, it is easy for me to say – my family isn’t being attacked and ridiculed. We know our President doesn’t cotton well to smears against his family. It’s hard to ignore. But sometimes, you have to turn the other cheek and move on.

This, too, will be yesterday’s news. But this time, doubt will begin to creep into even the most loyal anti-Trumpers, and their credibility rating will begin to erode. Slowly but surely, it will decline. Sure, Michael Wolff will make his millions, but it is only a fleeting moment of fame. His career as a journalist and TV celebrity is over. Another career up in smoke for a momentary short term gain. There is nothing as old as yesterday’s news.

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British security admits spying on Trump campaign for Obama and Deep State

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Friend and colleague Dr. Lyle Rapacki, a Protective Intelligence and Assessment Specialist and member of International Association Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts, is the founder and CEO of Sentinel Intelligence Services, LLC.

Quite regularly new revelations appear about the illegal intelligence operations launched on Donald Trump and his campaign by members of the Obama-wing of the Deep State.  Quite regularly said charges and accusations are vehemently denied by an array of U.S. Federal agencies and departments along with multiple levels of senior management in those agencies and departments, according to an intelligence briefing by Dr. Lyle Rapacki.

Equally as often, evidence appears to demonstrate that multiple levels of the “swamp” truly have been engaged in nefarious activities they are adamantly fighting to keep hidden.  (See British Intelligence Report re-production at the end of this analysis.)

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On March 15, the Conservative Base [editor Jim Kouri] wrote a news story highlighting Judge Andrew Napolitano’s allegations.

While the mainstream news media search and search for proof that President Barack Obama and his minions never wiretapped or spied on then-presidential candidate — now President — Donald Trump, a former criminal court judge from New Jersey surprised a morning news show’s audience with a shocking revelationthree different intelligence sources have alleged that President Obama was aided by a British spy agency to electronically eavesdrop on Donald Trump and his campaign.

 Judge Napolitano said that the Obama spy allegations saying Great Britain’s signal intelligence agency — Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) — is connected with America’s National Security Agency (NSA) computers and “most likely provided [former President Barack] Obama with transcripts of Trump’s calls.”

Additionally, prima facie evidence exists that demonstrates the Obama Administration, and specifically Susan Rice, National Security Adviser for Obama, was directly involved.   

Apparently, the GCHQ head, Robert Hannigan, who signed this document, left the agency 3 days after the Trump inauguration.  If proven authentic, this document reveals he collaborated with Susan Rice to illegally spy on Trump.

Mentioned below is still another lie exposed clearly demonstrating that Mr. Trump and his campaign were the focus of an intelligence operation involving our supposed strongest ally, Great Britain.

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It isn't Islamophobia when they really ARE trying to kill you

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Trump’s Treasury Slaps Iran With New Sanctions — and More May Be Coming

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The Treasury Department issued sanctions on five Iran-based businesses that are tied to the rogue state’s ballistic missile progam — and that may be just the start of what President Donald Trump is planning against Tehran.

Back in October, Trump had vowed tough crackdowns on Iran:

Apparently, he hasn’t forgotten his campaign rhetoric.

Secretary Steve Mnuchin said the White House would “continue to decisively counter the Iranian regime’s malign activity,” and issue whatever sanctions are needed to address the country’s human rights abuses and ballistic missiles’ offense.

The Jerusalem Post has more:

The Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned five Iran-based entities involved in Tehran’s ballistic missile program and announced its intent to add more sanctions on Iran over its treatment of anti-government protesters this past week, just as critical deadlines approach for US President Donald Trump on sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear work. …

“These sanctions target key entities involved in Iran’s ballistic missile program, which the Iranian regime prioritizes over the economic well-being of the Iranian people,” said Mnuchin. “As the Iranian people suffer, their government and the IRGC fund foreign militants, terrorist networks, and human rights abuses.”

The latest sanctions target sections of Iran’s Shahid Bakeri Industrial Group, responsible for the development and production of control systems, fiber materials, solid-propellant and motor cases critical to Iran’s ballistic missiles.

Trump and his vice president, Mike Pence, have said in recent days that the administration would consider additional sanctions on Tehran in light of its treatment of Iranian demonstrators, who took to the streets this past week calling for economic and political reforms.

Hundreds have been arrested and over 20 people have been killed in the unrest.

“The president is weighing additional actions to punish the regime for its belligerent behavior and assault on its own citizens,” Pence said on Wednesday.

Trump also suggested he will take additional action in the coming days.

“Such respect for the people of Iran as they try to take back their corrupt government,” he tweeted. “You will see great support from the United States at the appropriate time!”

Meanwhile, Trump faces deadlines on sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear program next week, waived every 120 days in line with a nuclear deal reached between Tehran and world powers in 2015.

The White House has not commented on whether Trump will continue those sanctions waivers, which would keep the US in line with the nuclear pact.

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Nonie Darwish: Is Quran-Inspired Advocacy Penetrating American Politics?

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It is hard not to notice the similarities between the scare tactics used by Leftist anti-Trump resistance movement and the Islamic tactics used against non-Muslims, the Kafir.

One of the most notorious terror verses in the Quran commanding Muslims to terrorize and torture non-Muslims is “I shall cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers so strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip.” 8:12

This Islamic terror verse has inspired many Islamic jihadists to kill and torture non-Muslims. But today, Muslim DNC official, Congressman Keith Ellison, has cleverly inserted this egregious verse into the US political discussion. Ellison said: “Strike Fear in the heart of Donald Trump” while holding the Handbook of the domestic terror group “ANTIFA.” Ellison could not claim this as just a coincidence and not inspired by a terror verse from the Quran because he is a Muslim and should know the link between what he said and what the Quran commands. He thought that by changing the word “terror” to the word “fear,” Americans would not link his threat to our president to Islamic jihad terror.

One of ANTIFA’s goals is to use violent attacks and vigilante street justice against those whom they call “fascist.” They feel entitled and are proud of their terror and violence, just like Islamic jihadists. They wear all black cloths and in masks adding to their exhibitionist scare tactics, very similar to those who perform Islamic jihad. Hizbullah and Hamas armies and terrorist beheaders often use facial masks as well.

Keith Ellison’s endorsement of the ANTIFA booklet advocating violence while bragging about the use of Quran-inspired fear against the US president is in and of itself a call for jihad threats of terror to achieve one’s goals.

As an elected official who is also the second man in the Democratic National Committee, this is a lot more outrageous than Kathy Griffin holding the fake severed bloody head of President Trump. Yet another Islamic inspired over-the-top “joke” by progressive Leftists, among many.

Another recent threat of violence against the White House came from activist and delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Linda Sarsour, when she called for “jihad” against the president at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention.

The similarities in tactics and language against perceived enemies is also noticeable in the use the words “insane,” “unfit” or “unbalanced.” The progressive leftist media and politicians have been slandering President Trump on a daily basis with accusations of insanity. Tyrannical societies are known to sending leaders of the opposition mental institutions for being “mad” because they disagree with them.

Daily, President Trump is being called “crazy,” “unstable” and “unfit” on American TV, and that does not only influence public opinion inside the United States, but around the world. In fact, US media is doing the bidding for our enemies to disrespect and hate our leaders, but only those from one party, the Republican Party. Leaders of Iran and North Korea are constantly referring to Trump as unstable, thanks to US media feeding them this fake propaganda. With friends like the US media towards the Republican Party, who needs enemies?

Again, the tactic of calling one’s enemies “crazy” is common among tyrannies around the world and is commonly used in the Muslim world to isolate, belittle and shame the opposition. Apostates out of Islam are often killed or sent to mental institutions because Muslim society believe they are “crazy” for not believing in Islam.

Like Islamist TV, leftist-leaning TV anchors in the West are foaming in the mouth, just like angry sheikhs against non-Muslims, but in the West, the hatred and the anger is against an elected president and leader of the Republican Party. To the progressive Leftists, just like Islamists on Arab TV, nothing is off limits if it fits their agenda and God save those whom they call “insane.”

Nonie Darwish, author, “Wholly Different; Why I chose Biblical Values Over Islamic Values”

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MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES REJOICE AFTER THEY LEARN HOW MUCH THEY’LL SAVE UNDER TRUMP’S TAX PLAN!


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‘CBS This Morning’ ran a special about the recently passed GOP Tax bill, and the families they spoke to couldn’t be happier. They took different families with different household situations and ALL OF THEM benefited from Trump’s tax plan!
The first woman in the piece will benefit greatly from the doubling of the child tax credit, and the featured CPA estimated that she would save close to $1,300 in one year! Do you know how life-changing that is for a single mother making only $40,000/year?
“That would be more that I would be seeing in each paycheck, so that would be a good thing!”, she exclaimed.
Next, they took a couple who are married homeowners with no children and found that they would save $650 for the year!
Watch below for this full amazing segment:
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The final couple in the piece was a married couple from California who have 3 kids. They are small business owners, and even THEY would see a nice tax cut!


According to the report, they will save a whopping $13,000 in taxes next year! Imagine what this small business can do with that extra $13,000? They can hire more employees, improve their facilities, and grow their business with that money!

The more and more we learn about this tax bill, the more and more we love it.
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The author of the explosive new Trump book says he can't be sure if parts of it are true

michael wolff Michael Wolff, the author of "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House." AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

  • "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" has set the political world ablaze.
  • It contains vivid, detailed, and embarrassing accounts of President Donald Trump and those around him.
  • But the book's author, Michael Wolff, says he can't be sure that all of it is true.


The author of the explosive new book about Donald Trump's presidency acknowledged in an author's note that he wasn't certain all of its content was true.

Michael Wolff, the author of "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," included a note at the start that casts significant doubt on the reliability of the specifics contained in the rest of its pages.

Several of his sources, he says, were definitely lying to him, while some offered accounts that flatly contradicted those of others.

But some were nonetheless included in the vivid account of the West Wing's workings, in a process Wolff describes as "allowing the reader to judge" whether the sources' claims are true.

Donald Trump January 4 2018 Donald Trump, seen at a meeting in the White House the day after elements of Wolff's book began to be reported. AP

In other cases, the media columnist said, he did use his journalistic judgment and research to arrive at what he describes "a version of events I believe to be true."

Here is the relevant part of the note, from the 10th page of the book's prologue:

"Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue. These conflicts, and that looseness with the truth, if not with reality itself, are an elemental thread of the book.

"Sometimes I have let the players offer their versions, in turn allowing the reader to judge them. In other instances I have, through a consistency in the accounts and through sources I have come to trust, settled on a version of events I believe to be true."

The book itself, reviewed by Business Insider from a copy acquired prior to its Friday publication, is not always clear about what level of confidence the author has in any particular assertion.

Lengthy, private conversations are reported verbatim, as are difficult-to-ascertain details like what somebody was thinking or how the person felt.

Wolff attributes his book to "more than two hundred interviews" with people including Trump and "most members of his senior staff." According to the news website Axios, Wolff has dozens of hours of tapes to back up what he said.

Claims contained in the book have been widely reported by the media in the US and further afield.

They include assertions that Trump never wanted to be president, that all of his senior staff considered him an idiot, that he tried to lock the Secret Service out of his room, and that he ate at McDonald's to avoid being poisoned.

Business Insider rounded up some more of the most eye-catching claims in this article.

Trump, who sought to block publication of the book but was too late, tweeted Thursday that it was "full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don't exist."

The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, described the book as "complete fantasy."

Asked to rebut specific points, she said: "I'm not going to waste my time or the country's time going page by page and talking about a book that is complete fantasy and just full of tabloid gossip."

Other people mentioned in the book have also disputed claims made about them.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who the book said warned Trump that he may be under surveillance from British spies, issued a statement describing the claim as "categorically absurd" and "simply untrue."

Anna Wintour, the longtime Vogue editor, also dismissed the claim that she lobbied Trump to be his ambassador to the UK as "laughably preposterous."

Other journalists have also urged caution. Some cited Wolff's track record — questions were raised about his 2008 book on Rupert Murdoch — and others compared his claims with their own knowledge of the Trump White House.

On Friday morning, Wolff responded to claims about the accuracy of his book in an interivew with NBC's "Today" show.

Host Savannah Guthrie asked him: "You stand by everything in the book? Nothing made up?"

He responded: "Absolutely everything in the book."

Shortly after, he expanded, saying: "I am certainly and absolutely, in every way, comfortable with everything I've reported in this book."

This isn't necessarily at odds with what he said in the author's note, as it allows for the possibility that he was told something untrue and repeated it without realising, or reached a wrong conclusion when presenting a version of contested events.

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#LoyalistReport - Genius indeed! President Trump fighting for us!
EARLY MORNING Take down to #FakeNews #Liberals #DemocRats
4:19 - 4:30 AM - 6 Jan 2018
Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence.....
....Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star.....
....to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius....and a very stable genius at that!

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Senate Judiciary Republicans refer dossier author Chris Steele to DOJ for criminal investigation

FILE PHOTO - Sen. Chuck Grassley speaks with reporters ahead of votes on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 6, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein Sen. Chuck Grassley. Thomson Reuters

  • Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham on Friday sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department about Christopher Steele, the author of the so-called Trump-Russia dossier.
  • The referral, sent along with undisclosed classified attachments, accused Steele of making false statements about speaking to the press about the dossier's claims.
  • Legal experts said the referral seemed politically motivated insofar as it did not appear to provide information to the FBI that it did not already have.


Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham on Friday issued a criminal referral to the Justice Department, urging it to examine whether the former British spy Christopher Steele made false statements to the FBI "about the distribution of claims" contained in a dossier he wrote about alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

In a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Chris Wray, Grassley and Graham wrote: "Attached please find a classified memorandum related to certain communications between Christopher Steele and multiple US news outlets regarding the so-called 'Trump dossier' that Mr. Steele compiled on behalf of Fusion GPS for the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee and also provided to the FBI."

The senators, both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, continued: "Based on the information contained therein, we are respectfully referring Mr. Steele to you for investigation of potential violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1001, for statements the Committee has reason to believe Mr. Steele made regarding his distribution of information contained in the dossier."

The criminal referral does not pertain to the veracity of the dossier's claims and "is not intended to be an allegation of a crime," a press release from the committee says.

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"I don't take lightly making a referral for criminal investigation," Grassley said in a statement. "But, as I would with any credible evidence of a crime unearthed in the course of our investigations, I feel obliged to pass that information along to the Justice Department for appropriate review."

Graham said in a separate statement that "after reviewing how Mr. Steele conducted himself in distributing information contained in the dossier and how many stop signs the DOJ ignored in its use of the dossier, I believe that a special counsel needs to review this matter."

The senators did not disclose what led them to believe that Steele had misled the FBI. It is unclear why the Justice Department would not have moved to charge Steele if the bureau had found evidence of wrongdoing in its interviews with him.

Steele's relationship with the bureau long predated his role in collecting information in the dossier, and the FBI took his intelligence seriously as it corroborated aspects of the investigation it had already opened into Russia's interference in the 2016 US election.

There is no evidence that Steele was ever under FBI investigation or gave a formal interview to the bureau, raising questions about whether his comments to federal agents about the dossier were material.

"I cannot understand why it would be necessary for members of Congress to make a criminal referral to the FBI concerning information we know the FBI already has," said Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who also sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the committee's ranking member, said, "I wasn't consulted about this referral, nor were any of my Democratic colleagues."

A political stunt?

Legal experts said the referral seemed politically motivated because it did not appear to provide the FBI information it did not already have.

"A referral that offered evidence of lying to Congress would be more likely to give the FBI something new and would be more likely to carry some weight," said William Yeomans, a former deputy assistant attorney general who spent 26 years at the Justice Department.

"If they are giving the FBI information it already has that suggests Steele lied to the FBI, the referral has little import. The bottom line is that the referral only matters to the extent it gives the FBI relevant evidence or otherwise unknown and credible allegations," he said. "Otherwise, it should be viewed as a political act."

Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, largely agreed.

"This is either a PR stunt or an attempt by senators who control DOJ funding to undermine the investigation," Mariotti said in an interview. "Either way, it's problematic, because it seems like an attempt to influence DOJ charging decisions."

Matt Miller, a former DOJ spokesman who served under President Barack Obama, said: "Every person in Congress has a decision to make right now, and Graham and Grassley have apparently decided they want to be remembered for carrying Donald Trump's water rather than getting to the bottom of how Russia interfered in our election."

Grassley sent letters to the Justice Department in October seeking more information about Peter Strzok — an FBI agent who sent text messages during the campaign that were critical of President Donald Trump and other political leaders — among others.

A spokeswoman for Grassley said last month that the Judiciary Committee's majority was focused on examining "improper political influence" within the FBI and Justice Department "spanning two administrations."

Feinstein, meanwhile, said Democrats' focus was "obstruction of justice and whether there was cooperation/collusion between the Trump administration and Russia."

'We should all be skeptical'

The opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which hired Steele in mid-2016 to investigate ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, accused Grassley of refusing to release the transcripts of its interview with the Judiciary Committee in August.

The firm's founders, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, said in a New York Times op-ed article this week that Republicans on the committee were "selectively" leaking details about the testimony "to media outlets on the far right."

Josh Levy, a lawyer for Fusion, said Friday that "publicizing a criminal referral based on classified information raises serious questions about whether this letter is nothing more than another attempt to discredit government sources, in the midst of an ongoing criminal investigation."

"We should all be skeptical in the extreme," Levy said.

Simpson and Fritsch wrote that it told lawmakers they should investigate Trump's history with Deutsche Bank and real-estate deals with "dubious Russians in arrangements that often raised questions about money laundering." The founders said they warned of Paul Manafort's "coziness with Moscow" as well as the former campaign chairman's "financial ties to Russian oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin."

Grassley shot back, saying Fusion did not want the transcripts made public at the time of the testimony. But the firm said in a later statement that after reviewing the transcript and making sure it did not reveal private client information, it wanted it to be released.

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What kind of POS brags about committing voter fraud in Alabama and shares it on the internet? It seems lying and cheating is the two plays Democrats have left in their playbook...very sad time in our country that this happens, let alone Democrats being proud of it!

"THIS IS A REAL POS DEMORAT"!

( When things reach this point were the elite  are above the LAW and you can no longer have a honest election    it is TIME FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO REBEL AND RESTORE THE RULE OF LAW!

LET US START NOW ALSO REMEMBER NOV. 8TH 2018 IS OUR NEXT ELECTIONS LET US USE THE POWER OF THE VOTE TO TAKE THEM DOWN! )

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What kind of POS brags about committing voter fraud in Alabama and shares it on the internet? It seems lying and cheating is the two plays Democrats have left in their playbook...very sad time in our country that this happens, let alone Democrats being proud of it!

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How Kaspersky’s Software Fell Under Suspicion of Spying on America

Officials lack conclusive evidence, but incidents involving the firm’s antivirus products raised alarms

Eugene Kaspersky at his company’s Moscow headquarters in 2017. Pavel Golovkin/Associated Press

Eugene Kaspersky was late for his own dinner party.

At his invitation, guests from the Washington cybersecurity community waited one evening in 2012. Seated at the National Press Club were officials from the White House, State Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies, said people who were there. Guests had started their first course when Mr. Kaspersky arrived, wearing a tuxedo with a drink in hand.

Mr. Kaspersky, chief executive of Russian security-software vendor Kaspersky Lab, proposed a toast to the ranking guest, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, whose country had suffered a cyberattack five years earlier. The assault followed Estonia’s decision to remove a Soviet-era monument from its capital, and U.S. officials suspected Russia was behind it.

“Toomas,” Mr. Kaspersky said. “I am so sorry that we attacked you.”

The comment stopped all conversation until Mr. Ilves broke the silence. “Thank you,” he said, raising his glass. “This is the first time anyone from Russia has ever admitted attacking my country.”

​No one suggested Kaspersky was involved in the Estonian hack, but Mr. Kaspersky’s toast played into a suspicion held by many in the U.S. intelligence community that his company might be wittingly or unwittingly in league with the Russian government—a suspicion that has only intensified since.

The process of evaluating Kaspersky’s role, and taking action against the company, is complicated by the realities of global commerce and the nature of how modern online software works. A top Department of Homeland Security official said in November congressional testimony the U.S. lacks “conclusive evidence” Kaspersky facilitated national-security breaches.

Employees at Kaspersky Lab in Moscow, October 2017.
Employees at Kaspersky Lab in Moscow, October 2017. Photo: Kirill Kallinikov/Sputnik/Associated Press

While the U.S. government hasn’t offered conclusive evidence, Wall Street Journal interviews with current and former U.S. government officials reveal what is driving their suspicions.

Some of these officials said they suspect Kaspersky’s antivirus software—the company says it is installed on 400 million computers world-wide—has been used to spy on the U.S. and blunt American espionage. Kaspersky’s suspected involvement in U.S. security breaches raises concerns about the relationship between the company and Russian intelligence, these officials said.

DHS, convinced Kaspersky is a threat, has banned its software from government computers. The company sued the U.S. government on Dec. 18 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., saying the ban was arbitrary and capricious, and demanding the prohibition be overturned. DHS referred inquiries to the Justice Department, which declined to comment.

Kaspersky, in a statement, said: “Unverified opinions of anonymous officials about Kaspersky Lab continue to be shared, and should be taken as nothing more than unsubstantiated allegations against a company whose mission has always been to protect against malware regardless of its source, and which has repeatedly extended an offering to the U.S. government to help alleviate any substantiated concerns. We have never helped and will never help any government with its cyberespionage efforts.”

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France: Muslim threatens to “slaughter the faithful’ during Church mass

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There is no news report on this story in English. Imagine if a Christian stormed a mosque during Friday prayers and threatened to slaughter the faithful. Of course, you can’t because because that never happens. But if it did it would be worldwide news.

The elected UMP Pierre Bédier, former mayor of Mantes-la-Jolie, estimates that there is 80% of Muslims in the district in what is called the the cultural specialization of the district”.

Mantes-la-Jolie: he threatens to “kill” the faithful at Mass
December 29, 2017, Le Parsien via ‘Observatoire de’lslamisation’ (thanks to Alexandre):

The mayor of Mantes-la-Jolie, Raphael Cognet (LR) and the priest of the church of Val-Fourre complained after the remarks made by an individual last Sunday at the end of the mass.

While the church service was coming to an end, a stranger entered the church and made disturbing remarks, threatening to slaughter the faithful. Among those present were the Mayor of Mantes-la-Jolie and the parish priest. They would not have been specifically targeted.

The man, in his thirties, has still not been found. It could be an imbalance.

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Data: Trump Admin. Reduces Refugee Admissions by 70% in First Year

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Since the hijrah into Germany, their violent crime shot up – 92% committed by Muslim migrants. The crime statistics in other European countries that opened their borders to the immigration jihad

President Trump is saving us, our children from this scourge.

Data: Trump Admin. Reduces Refugee Admissions by 70% in First Year

January 1, 2018 | John Binder | Breitbart:

President Trump reduced foreign refugee admissions by roughly 70 percent in nearly the first year of his presidency, a new report reveals.

Center for Immigration Studies researcher Nayla Rush released a new study comparing refugee admissions to the United States under Trump versus those under former President Obama between Jan. 20 to Dec. 20, 2017, and the same time period in 2016.

During the first 11 months of Trump’s presidency, the populist-nationalist president cut the number of foreign refugees entering the U.S. by about 70 percent, according to Rush’s research.

In his first 11 months, Trump admitted 28,875 foreign refugees to the U.S., a vast difference from the whopping 93,668 foreign refugees admitted in the same time period under Obama. Likewise, for Fiscal Year 2018, Trump has lowered the number of refugees who can enter the U.S. to 45,000, which as Rush notes, is the lowest refugee cap since 1980.

Between Jan. 20 and Dec. 20, 2017, more than 53 percent of the 28,875 refugees resettled in the U.S. were Christians, while 32 percent were Muslim, 5.4 percent were Buddhist and nearly 4 percent were Hindu.

Compare that to Obama refugee resettlements in 2016 when 45 percent of the 93,668 refugees admitted were Muslim and 44 percent were Christians.

Due to left-wing judges holding up implementation of Trump’s travel ban — which sought to halt refugee resettlement to the U.S. from terrorist-funding countries — nearly 5,600 refugees from Somalia, Iran and Syria were able to enter the U.S. this year.

But, in December 2017, Trump’s travel ban on refugees from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Somalia, Venezuela, and Yemen was able to be fully implemented, thus far ending refugee resettlement from these countries for the time being.

Under Trump, only roughly 2,000 Syrian refugees entered the U.S. in 2017, a far cry from the mass resettlement of more than 15,000 Syrian refugees in a single year under Obama.

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